About Innovaris Labs
Story is
the only
technology
that never
goes obsolete.
We explore the creative frontier — where technology reshapes storytelling, entertainment reinvents itself, and the human imagination still sets the terms.
Tech Evolves. Stories Endure. Creativity is Timeless.
Our Philosophy
The most powerful
technology humans
ever built was
a good story.
We started Innovaris Labs because we kept noticing the same pattern: the most transformative innovations — in games, in film, in media, in technology — weren't just technical breakthroughs. They were stories well told. The platform changed. The algorithm changed. The story was the constant.
After 25+ years working at the intersection of entertainment, technology, and creative industry — through boom cycles and disruptions, through M&A waves and platform shifts, through the rise of streaming and the explosion of AI — we've learned that what survives isn't the loudest technology. It's the most resonant idea, executed with craft.
Innovaris Labs exists to track that intersection — to analyze what it means for creators, for companies, and for the culture — and to bring you the perspective of people who have spent decades inside the rooms where these decisions are made.
What We Cover
Six ways we explore the intersection of story, creativity, and tech.
The Edit
Curated news and analysis from the worlds of entertainment, gaming, tech, and media — filtered through the eyes of industry insiders, not algorithms.
Newsletter · NewsThe Story
Storytelling is the oldest technology humans have. We explore how it's being reinvented — through AI, through new platforms, through creators who are building their own pipelines.
Features · Lab NotesThe Screen
Film, streaming, gaming, immersive experience — the boundaries between screens have dissolved. We follow the deals, the creators, and the craft shaping what you'll watch next.
Entertainment · Game DevThe Place
The most enduring creative ideas are rooted in place — in culture, in landscape, in how a community lives and makes meaning. We explore the places and people who are quietly shaping what creativity looks like next.
Culture · Travel · PeopleLab Notes
Our original editorial voice. Longer-form analysis, personal perspective, and the occasional provocation — when we think the industry needs a different way of seeing something.
Essays · InsightsThe Experience
Ideas become real when you live them. Our Wanderblyss retreats bring the Innovaris world to life — immersive creative gatherings in extraordinary places for people who want to think deeply about what comes next.
Retreats · Toursbetter done away
from the desk.
The best creative breakthroughs rarely happen in front of a screen. They happen in conversation, in unfamiliar places, when your usual patterns of thinking are interrupted by something beautiful or unexpected.
Through our sister brand Wanderblyss, we design immersive retreats and experiences for creative professionals, entrepreneurs, and storytellers who want to step outside the noise of the industry — and come back with a clearer sense of what they're building and why.
Part cultural immersion, part creative recharge, part strategic deep-dive. These are the experiences that the Innovaris worldview looks like in real life.
Explore Wanderblyss Retreats →The People
Built by people who've been inside the rooms.
Wanda Meloni
Co-Founder · Strategic Advisor · Editor
Wanda has spent more than two decades at the intersection of entertainment, technology, and creative industry — advising companies through M&A, investor readiness, and strategic inflection points. She has watched platforms rise and collapse, seen technologies promise everything and deliver half of it, and worked alongside the creators who built worlds that outlasted the hype.
Her editorial voice is shaped by that vantage point: curious, direct, and more interested in the story underneath the headline than the headline itself. She has a rare ability to see a funding round in game tech and understand what it means for creators, or to spot a cultural shift in storytelling before the trades have named it.
Through Innovaris Labs and Wanderblyss, she's building something she couldn't find elsewhere: a media and experiences ecosystem for people who want to think seriously about creativity, technology, and what it means to make something that lasts.
John Phua
Co-Founder · Technology · Content
John has spent over 25 years working at the cutting edge of digital entertainment, content creation, and emerging technology. He's seen firsthand which innovations transformed the industry and which ones quietly vanished — and he's developed a sharp instinct for telling the difference.
His work at Innovaris Labs is driven by a belief that technology only matters when it serves a human purpose — and that the best creative communities are the ones built around shared curiosity rather than shared demographics.
Together, John and Wanda bring more than 50 combined years of industry perspective to the stories they tell — and to the community they're building around them.
Join us on
the long view.
Subscribe to The Edit — our newsletter on the creative tech frontier. Or join us on retreat and think alongside us in person.
